SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Through ardent self education on marine biology, environmental stewardship, marinership, and more, Henry continues to be a passionate teacher and speaker on these subjects. Through public and classroom engagments, we inspire and educate students and professionals on the avenues one can take to a professional and personal life filled with a respect, love, and wonder for the natural world.
Past Talks
Working with the World: The 1000 Careers Spent with Nature
You love the ocean. You love looking out your window in the morning and seeing the birds outside on the windowsill. On the weekends, you go out and you experience the wonders of a forest by waking up early, beating the traffic and driving far away from the city. But what if you got to do that everyday? What if you didn’t just get to see the birds in the morning, but also got to help them restore their habitats? Did you know that there are 9 million jobs in the US alone with the sole aim to strengthen, explore, and restore our natural world? We are in a unique point in history. The careers we choose don’t have to be profit-driven. They can be climate-driven. Education-driven. They can aim to soothe and solve the climate-anxieties that so many of us experience. Its our time now to inform our young professionals on the paths they can take toward a career that feels not only important, but exciting. There is a need for more scientists. There is a need for more people at our parks and in our oceans doing restorative and preventative work. And there are a great deal of young professionals who, whether they know it or not, are the perfect fit for the job.
Put Your Phone Away: Go Out and Look at the Rocks!
Foghorn’s mission has always been to engage students with nature. We learn to love the environment before we find the reasons to care for it. One of the shortfalls in environmental education is the lack of personal depth fostered between the student and the subject. So you learned about oil deposits. So you learned about the harms of oil drilling on the natural world. But so what? There’s a second step that environmental education must take. We must inspire a student body that is not only informed, but is engaged and motivated to become stewards of the environment. We learn about the struggles of the natural world every day in the news. But its very seldom that we are encouraged just to go out, experience, and rejoice in nature.
